Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-23
THE RAILROADS.
Texas and Pacific Officials on Tour
Over the 1ranscontinental Divis-
ion from Fort Worth.
Gulf, Colorado aud Santa Fe Progress.
New Locomotives-New Schedule-Re-
clining Chair Cars-Home Notes.
Home Notes,

Men and teams are pouring into the
Panhandle to work on the Fort Worth
and Denver extension.
Mai. John Lewis o; Austin, excursion
agent of the Missouri Pacific, was in the
City last night on his way North.
General Manager Webster Snyder and
ed to be in Fort Worth to-day or to-mor-
row.
Track is going down on the Gulf, Col
orado and Santa Fe on the extension into
the Indian Territory at the rate of a mile
q day.
Vice President Lawrence OF the Fort
Worth Western left for New York last
night. He will return with a committee
made up of officers and directors of the
road.
The Texas and Pacific has five new
locomotives in service from Fort Worth
east and two west. These engines are
fine pieces of machinery, weigh forty
eight tons, and can pull large train of
loaded cars.
A. S. Douglas, master mechanic at Big
Springs of the Texas and Pacific shops,
was in Fort Worth yesterday. He re-
ports everything quiet, and says the rain
of yesterday WAS general for some dis
lance west Of Fort Worth.
Eight DAYS more and President w. B.
Strong oil the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe with party of distinguished railroad
men, and President Henry Slocum of the
Fort Worth Western, with number of
prominent railroad men, will be in this
city. Fort Worth will entertain the gen.
tlemen in beftting manner.
There was quite party of Texas and
Pacific officials in Fort Worth last night,
who leave this morning for trip of in
SpectiOn over the Tr2nscontinental diyis-
ion. The officials here were John A.
Grent, general manager; L. S ThOrne,
master of transportation; T. W. Ander-
son, superintendent of the Eastern and
Transcontinental divisions, and L. A.
Carney, general superintendent of bridges
and buildings.
The Fort Worth and Denver has issued
time table No. y, to take effect Tuesday,
January %, at 5 g.. m, central time. The
mail and express will leave Fort Worth
daily at 6:25 e. m, leave Decatur at
1915 q. m, leave y iwie at l :j5 g. m,
Henrietta at | 10 p. m, Wichita Falls st
p. m, Harold at S:25 p. m, arrive at
Vernon at 4:O5 p. m. The above is the
time for north bound trains. All trains
abandoned north of Vernon until further
notice. South-bound mail an& express
trains leave Vernon at S As am. and ar
rive at Fort Worth at 20 PPM.
THE GAZETTE is in REGENT of q hand
some card from the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe, which IL backed, "Iutroduclng
the RECLINING Chair Car Service" The
AM .i5dncement reads: Texas Midland
Route, Gulf, Colorado and Santa re Rail
waV-Dear Sir: We beg 10 inform you
that on and after January Il, 1887, re-
clining chair Cars-new, elegant, well
warmed and well ventilated-will be at
tached to all through trains on this line
of railway, and that to all holders of first
class tickets from Galveston or Houston
to Dallas, Fort Worth or Gainesville, or
from Dallas, Fort Worth or Gainesville
to Hous ION or Galveston, seats in these
luxurious accessories to modern travel,
will be free, otherwise the rates, in addi-
ton to regular fare, will be as follows:
One hundred and fifty miles or under, p
cents; between so and $50 miles, so cents;
over $50 miles, 10 cents. Children occu-
plying seats in char cars will be charged
same as adults.
The comforts and Conveniences of such /.
valuable acquisitions to our already per-
feet equipment are so apparent that it
only remains to call your attention to the |
pleasing fact of our chair car service, and |
solicit, in our new and progressive de-
partment, continuation of the fsvors so
generously accorded us in the past. !
Yours very truly, JAMES 5. CARK, /
Gen'l. p. and T. Ag't.
W. SNYDER,
GenI. Mang., Galveston.